Getting started with automation can be a very scary proposition for anyone or any company that has never done it. In this post and blog we give you five tips for making this process a little less fear inducing. Hopefully this will help you navigate the path of least resistance.

6 things to think about when you are writing your communications with other teams. We explain why it's just as important to explain why you are communicating as what you are doing. Remember a little time spent preparing a message can save you days, weeks or months of time trying to get everyone to understand.

Seriously why do people always have to think that if we just implement X it will solve all of our problems? It can't and won't because a tool or methodology is rarely the biggest problem. Most buzzwords over promise and under deliver. Here is what I think...

Part of any successful campaign to win people over to doing things in a DevOps style usually requires some sort of promise of it being a better way. So how do you prove you are seeing benefits as you start to implement your plan? How do you quantify all the unlogged hours you put in doing things manually after you have just automated it. Sure you and maybe your boss will notice you have reduced your hours down to 80 hours a week, but what about the people at the top? The ones who ultimately need convinced to let you keep spending time on it?

That's right don't even attempt to do DevOps without Change/Incident Management. Not because you won't be successful in at least small ways. Not because people won't appreciate you automating your companies one hundred and fifty servers in five minutes instead of five days. But because you won't be able to prove any benefit of DevOps to Management. That means they won't appreciate it, value it, or the most important part FUND it......

Where to begin and what language is a question the DevOps Master get's often. So at a readers request he decided to give out his recommendations. He also explains a little behind the wars between the languages.

DevOps is the term currently used for Systems Automation. The art and craft of making building and deploy processes for complex systems and applications reliable, repeatable and maintainable. But that is just the begining. Check out this article for more details.